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(I'll try harder next time!!)
you COULD have finished, young man, i recall, but you didn't bother because you decided that you would miss the cut off. that is called "quitting", and it makes you little better than pauline radcliffe
we need a new rank. suggestions?
Take Zilla (sorry to use you as an example Zill) Hes now got less points than Andy Fordham.
of course you should get negative credit for quitting. OK if it was a forced DNF due to hyponatraemic coma then your negative credit can be removed on appeal to the founder pirates committee (ie me, rosey and monique). monique will let you off for quitting, but me and rosey wont so there's no point bothering to appeal.
until somebody beats it (and i'm sure they will at IMDE) the standard is me at IMCH. after i couldn't walk any more at around mile 12 i had absolutely no chance of making cut off just by hopping, but i started hopping anyway, even though every single hop hurt so much it made me cry. then i invented the turbo hop and beat cut off anyway. but i still hopped 14 miles. i wouldn't ask anybody to do what i wouldn't do myself, so quitting when you have no chance of finishing gives you a minus point. i'm not saying that hopping wasn't stupid, just that it was an option, so i took it.
no arguing with the ref, or i'll deduct another credit from you, you scurvey dog.
me, me, me!
[bites Candy's good leg]
not me though, i tried to run on my gammy foot this morning and it wasn't pleasant, so i quit after 10 miles. as every week passes, i get more convinced that i broke it. stupid motorbike.
also my girly knees started getting all chafed.
[looks defiantly up at the grumpy primate]
eg, see FBs targets for IMCH last year.
1 (can't remember)
2 finish
3 finish within cut off
4 (cant remember, but it was finish in such-and-such a time)
5 (cant remember that one either)#
6 win, probably
the point is that finishing came above beating the cut off. carry on, and do the distance. that's the pirate spirit. yar har.
I will finish then. Assuming I don't go into a hyponatraemic coma or hypovolaemic shock or anything else like that. Of course, I'm a nurse, so I should be able to self-medicate.
For fear of loosing any points for moaning ill settle for my two then..
Yeahhha 2 points..
Oh do you get a bones for doing two Ironman races in back to back calendar months or wearing red and pink underwear under your tri suit?